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1 Corinthians 7:35 KJV
1 Corinthians · chapter 7 · verse 35
And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.1 Corinthians 7:35 · King James Version
1 Corinthians 7:35 in context
33But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
34There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
35And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
36But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
37Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
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Key words (Strong's)
- profitsympherōto bear or bring together, to bear together or at the same time, to carry with others, to…G4851 →
- comelyeuschēmōnof elegant figure, shapely, graceful, comely, bearing one s self becomingly in speech or…G2158 →
- speaklegōto say, to speak, affirm over, maintain, to teach, to exhort, advise, to command, direct…G3004 →
- castepiballōto cast upon, to lay upon, used of seizing one to lead him off as a prisoner, to put on…G1911 →
- Lordkyrioshe to whom a person or thing belongs, about which he has power of deciding master, lord…G2962 →
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The apostle here resumes his discourse, and gives directions to virgins how to act, concerning which we may take notice, I. Of the manner wherein he introduces them: "Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord, Co1 7:25.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 25-35